American Veterinary Review. 
JANUARY, 1898. 
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Roscoe R. Beip Seventh Ave. dr= Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, Nezv York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
SOWING THE WIND AND REAPING THE 
WHIRLWIND. 
“ If a law were simultaneously enacted in every State of the Union 
which fosters a veterinary college to compel every prospective student 
to take a matriculant examination, and every graduate to pass the Board 
of Regents, it would be fair for all hands. Where, however, one State 
places barriers in front of her colleges, and other States hold out induce¬ 
ments to receive them, the result is unfair. Young men seeking to ac¬ 
quire a professional knowledge will not select a seat of learning which 
is so hampered by State 1 aws as to make his chances of success less than 
he can procure in other States. There can be no doubt but that the fram¬ 
ing of the recent law was primarily in the interest of higher education, 
but the schools in this State cannot hope to attract an increased number 
of students from other States who expect to locate outside of New York 
. . . ”—Editorial m Review, October, iSpy. 
We have never laid claim to being a prophet nor the son 
of one, but the above quotation from these pages, printed more 
than two years ago, shows that the effect of a cause was pretty 
accurately foreseen. If this had been written to-day as a history 
instead of a prophecy,'the principal change in its construction 
would be in the fact that the disastrous working of the Regents^ 
regulations was not sufficiently appreciated. For instance, we 
did not foresee that, not only “ could the schools in this State 
not hope to attract students from other States,” but that their 
unreasonable demands upon those young men resident in the 
Empire State seeking to enter her medical schools, would be 
driven precipitately from within her borders to acquire their 
education. But all this has been done, and more than this. It 
has so reduced the attendance at her medical, dental, and veter- 
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